https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_ … candidates

Suffice to say, historically if there was a prominent person with a name that also happened to have won an election by write-in, it is safe to assume the prominent person with that name has been awarded the position for which that election was held.  Now... if there was another person named Ted Cruz who expressed an interest in running for President at the same time and whose interest was well known... then you might have a problem.

One more spot added to each family.

To clarify, until this round there was a limit that would prevent players from gaining the morale-boosting benefits of any morale planet beyond the fifth that player controlled.  For this round, that limit has been changed to 99.  Feel free to hoard morale planets again!

Trust me, you don't want that!

A couple races built droids that could cross ravines.  In fact, it's quite easy to code.  However, when you fix too many flaws in a droid, that droid starts to realize that it is in every way, shape, and form superior to its biological counterparts and, as a result, begins undermining, and eventually rebelling against, its creators.  Keeping the ravine bug in the coding reminds the droids of their fallibility, keeping them in line.  At the same time, however, the ravine glitch is small enough to ensure only a relatively minor number of droids are subject to its hazards.  Best for everyone, really.

One more spot added.  Should be at 8 spots per family.

Don't worry, mods can cheat enough to make it work, considering we're talking about a non-competitive account meant solely to ensure fair gameplay.

I built my fleet one tick too late.  That is all.

Nope.

I should probably take a moment and use this opportunity as a teaching lesson to explain to everyone why engaging in certain behavior described above can be incredibly counterproductive.

I am family 3159.  I have been one of the highest producers for most of this game, and I am also the only person that's been able to put a dent in Lightguns in this galaxy.  Suffice to say, I had every intention of attacking Lightguns, and Lightguns likely knew that my attack was going to be a thing.

Then 1manarmy posted.  Now I am privvy to information that I would not have been able to obtain otherwise.  As a result, if I were to attack Lightguns, I would be using an advantage provided to me illegally.  Being a moderator, that would be horribly unethical.  As a result, I have little choice but to not attack Lightguns, when the alternative would have most likely resulted in me sending my fleet blind and likely building enough bombers to do damage, but not enough to take the planet myself.

Now I can't do that.  Now my 3 weeks of round is screwed up, but that's not a thing that matters.  What's important for the purpose of this analysis is that you lost someone who would have done exactly what you wanted them to do had you just not said anything.  You, 1manarmy, completely screwed up your own effort.